Vocabulary

• as one: Acting or moving together at the same time.
• at stake: At risk; that can be lost if something is not successful
• in motion: Moving; not stationary.
• waste away: To gradually become weaker and thinner, often due to illness or lack of food.
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• opening up: Revealing one's thoughts and feelings; becoming more communicative.
• perceive: To notice or become aware of something
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• chaos: State of utter confusion or disorder
• accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• respiratory: (Medical) concerning breathing
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• stake: Share/interest in the success of a business, etc.
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• inflammation: Painful swelling in the body due to illness
• protein: Group of molecules made from amino acids
• precise: (Of language details etc.) Very accurate and exact
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• intact: Being complete, without damaged or missing parts
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• impair: To damage or weaken something
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• retain: To continue to have or use; keep the quality of
• neuron: A nerve cell
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• swallow: To believe (something that is not true)
• nerve: Fibers in the body that enable feeling, movement
• apparent: Easy to see or clearly understand
• arsenal: Place where weapons are stored
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• prevail: To be successful against enemy/problem
• cognition: Recognition involved in thought processing
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• pinpoint: Exact, as of accuracy
• cellular: Concerning a cell of a living thing
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• degenerate: To become something worse or inferior; deteriorate
• marvel: Something that causes wonder or astonishment
• voluntary: Done or given by their own will and not forced
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• mutate: To develop into another thing; change
• hereditary: Passing from parents to children
• full: Containing all the parts; complete
• age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• intellect: Ability to think with reason and intelligence
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• physicist: Person who studies and works in physics
• call: A order or request for action
• lateral: On the side; moving sideways
• hawk: Large bird kills smaller birds and animals
• sclerosis: (Medical) process in which a soft tissue becomes hard